CVE-2026-27980

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 98% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Published: March 18, 2026 (57 days ago)
Last Modified: March 18, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

An unbounded disk usage flaw has been discovered in Next.js. The default Next.js image optimization disk cache (`/_next/image`) did not have a configurable upper bound, allowing unbounded cache growth. An attacker could generate many unique image-optimization variants and exhaust disk space, causing denial of service.

CWE

CWE-770

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signerstreams for Apache Kafka 2streams for Apache Kafka 3

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com